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Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content (FB, Insta, Threads)

I thought Yanis claims re cloud capital were overstated (over old fashioned capital), but it looks increasingly correct
 
Presumably the brosphere is full of neckbeards celebrating how they have 'defeated DEI and wokeness' - like, yeah, guys, the easiest 'victory' ever in a white supremacist patriarchy. What you mean is 'the rich people stopped tolerating the concept of equality'
 
I'm not sure how much of it I trust but there was a report yesterday that Facebook's only dumping fact checking in the US - I suspect because of a fear of retaliation from governments in most of the rest of the world. To begin with at least; I suspect the bullshittery incubator will be inflicted on the rest of the world once they've calculated exactly how much they can get away with.


SpookyFrank said:
Well more and more of their platform is given over to spam advertising content. But that has only worked because FB has a huge user base and a huge data set generated by them. As users lapse or quit altogether (not least because of the endless spam shite) the data set becomes stale, the target audience shrinks, advertisers will lose interest. Particularly anyone who doesn't want to take the PR hit from giving money to a company that's just announced its intention to double down on fact-free culture war bullshit at any cost.
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This reminded me of an essay/polemic I discovered in a rare idle moment in the pre-christmas doldrums at work; not about facebook specifically but the whole social media/apposphere in general. The author could do with an editor (it's a bit of a long and meandering read) but there's a lot of salient points in there and much of their sentiment matches my own.

www.wheresyoured.at

Never Forgive Them

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might promise. More
www.wheresyoured.at www.wheresyoured.at

I believe billions of people are in active combat with their devices every day, swiping away notifications, dodging around intrusive apps, agreeing to privacy policies that they don’t understand, desperately trying to find where an option they used to use has been moved to because a product manager has decided that it needed to be somewhere else. I realize it’s tough to conceptualize because it’s so ubiquitous, but how much do you fight with your computer or smartphone every day? How many times does something break? How many times have you downloaded an app and found it didn’t really do the thing you wanted it to? How many times have you wanted to do something simple and found that it’s actually really annoying?

How much of your life is dodging digital debris, avoiding scams, ads, apps that demand permissions, and endless menu options that bury the simple things that you’re actually trying to do?

You are the victim of a con. You have spent years of your life explaining to yourself and others that “this is just how things are,” accepting conditions that are inherently exploitative and abusive. You are more than likely not deficient, stupid, or “behind the times,” and even if you are, there shouldn’t be multi-billion dollar enterprises that monetize your ignorance.

And it’s time to start holding those responsible accountable.
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A corporate lawyer with principles? Who knew they existed?

California attorney Mark Lemley dropped Meta Platforms Inc. as a client in a high-profile copyright case because of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness,” the Stanford University professor said on LinkedIn.
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news.bloomberglaw.com

Meta Lawyer Lemley Quits AI Case Citing Zuckerberg 'Descent' (1)

California attorney Mark Lemley dropped Meta Platforms Inc. as a client in a high-profile copyright case because of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness,” the Stanford University professor said on LinkedIn.
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I think I loath Zuckerberg more than Musk now - he's such a pathetic, hollow, empty, small, sad nobody of a man. A laughing stock and court jester for big daddy Trump - who literally threatened to jail him last year! A worthless sack of shit who looked at that Nazi-hellscape of X and thought 'I should make my platform more like that!' An unfathomable dickhead who has relocated his moderation team to Texas - a State ruled by gerrymandered theocrats who have stripped women of their right to bodily autonomy - in the name of freedom. Come the revolution this bastard needs to be one of the first against the wall. Cunt.
 
stdP said:
I'm not sure how much of it I trust but there was a report yesterday that Facebook's only dumping fact checking in the US - I suspect because of a fear of retaliation from governments in most of the rest of the world. To begin with at least; I suspect the bullshittery incubator will be inflicted on the rest of the world once they've calculated exactly how much they can get away with.




This reminded me of an essay/polemic I discovered in a rare idle moment in the pre-christmas doldrums at work; not about facebook specifically but the whole social media/apposphere in general. The author could do with an editor (it's a bit of a long and meandering read) but there's a lot of salient points in there and much of their sentiment matches my own.

www.wheresyoured.at

Never Forgive Them

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might promise. More
www.wheresyoured.at www.wheresyoured.at
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AI will fix this...

By killing us all. We are the weak link.
 
danny la rouge said:
Fair point. Although I was more concerned that AI is making up books.
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It's bacuase large language models are really just designed to copy the form of something so if what they are writing is the the sort of thing that refers to books it will do the same but as it will just make them up as it can't connect things together.

This is why when a lawyer tried to use it to do his work for him he was immediately caught out. It produced somethings that looked right, but all the case law it cited was made up.
 
only halfway through listening to this 3 hour podcast but its a step by step account of all the key decisions made at Facebook since the beginning up to the present day and their impact (as gleaned from books on the topic)

As someone with a poor memory it was interesting to go back and be reminded what Facebook used to be like, to have a narration of the incremental entification, and hear the relentless pursuit of profit and engagement over all things despite the fall out. Facebook has been dead a long time but its clear from this narrative it has one gear only and that is steamrollering ever forward into the sewer.


 
Just had a look at Disney + to see if it was worth keeping the sub and one of the first recommendations was for a 14 and a half hour recording of Trump’s inauguration, so that made my mind up.
Are there other fascist-enabling organisations we should be boycotting?
 
Orang Utan said:
Just had a look at Disney + to see if it was worth keeping the sub and one of the first recommendations was for a 14 and a half hour recording of Trump’s inauguration, so that made my mind up.
Are there other fascist-enabling organisations we should be boycotting?
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I'd have thought that Disney of all corporations would recognise the highly fungible nature of escapism in times like these.
 
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